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IDENTIFIED 5 TURKISH CYPRIOT MISSING PERSONS TO BE HANDED OVER TO
THEIR FAMILIES
(12.02.2008)
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Turkish Cypriot missing persons whose remains have been found during
the exhumations in South Cyprus and identities have been identified
are to be handed over to their families. A military funeral will be
held for the Turkish Cypriot missing persons at the Lefkosa Martyr’s
Cemetery on Friday (15 February).
According to the information received from the Association of
Martyrs’ Families and War Veterans, the identified remains of Fehim
Hüseyin and Kamil Hüseyin Kuşuri, who went missing in 1964, and
Ahmet Cemal, Erdoğan Enver and Ünal Adil who went missing in 1974,
will be handed over to their families on Friday. A military ceremony
will be held for 4 martyrs at the Lefkoşa Martyrs’ Cemetery on the
same day and Kusuri will be buried in Tuzla on Saturday.
The
Autonomous Missing Persons Committee announced that the total number
of missing persons whose remains were identified after being found
during the exhumations, has reached to 83. This includes 12 Turkish
Cypriot missing persons whose identified remains have been handed
over to their families lately.
According to the written statement issued by the Committee, new
identity identification studies would be completed in the
forthcoming weeks. The statement pointed out that a group from the
bi-communal team of archeologists and anthropologists were carrying
out studies in Yerasa region in South Cyprus to find the Turkish
Cypriot missing persons and two groups from the team were carrying
out exhumations in Girne and Mesarya in Northern Cyprus to find
Greek Cypriot missing persons. The statement added that the
Committee has recently carried out exhumations in Karpasha.
12 February 2008
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